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mb_strwidth

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

mb_strwidth Return width of string

Description

mb_strwidth ( string $string , ? string $encoding = null ): int

Returns the width of string string , where halfwidth characters count as 1 , and fullwidth characters count as 2 . See » http://www.unicode.org/repors/tr11/ for details regarding East Asian character widths.

The fullwidth characters are: U+1100 - U+115F , U+11A3 - U+11A7 , U+11FA - U+11FF , U+2329 - U+232A , U+2E80 - U+2E99 , U+2E9B - U+2EF3 , U+2F00 - U+2FD5 , U+2FF0 - U+2FFB , U+3000 - U+303E , U+3041 - U+3096 , U+3099 - U+30FF , U+3105 - U+312D , U+3131 - U+318E , U+3190 - U+31BA , U+31C0 - U+31E3 , U+31F0 - U+321E , U+3220 - U+3247 , U+3250 - U+32FE , U+3300 - U+4DBF , U+4E00 - U+A48C , U+A490 - U+A4C6 , U+A960 - U+A97C , U+AC00 - U+D7A3 , U+D7B0 - U+D7C6 , U+D7CB - U+D7FB , U+F900 - U+FAFF , U+FE10 - U+FE19 , U+FE30 - U+FE52 , U+FE54 - U+FE66 , U+FE68 - U+FE6B , U+FF01 - U+FF60 , U+FFE0 - U+FFE6 , U+1B000 - U+1B001 , U+1F200 - U+1F202 , U+1F210 - U+1F23A , U+1F240 - U+1F248 , U+1F250 - U+1F251 , U+20000 - U+2FFFD , U+30000 - U+3FFFD . All other characters are halfwidth characters.

Parameters

string

The string being decoded.

encoding

The encoding parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted or null , the internal character encoding value will be used.

Return Values

The width of string string .

Changuelog

Versionen Description
8.0.0 encoding is nullable now.

Examples

Example #1 mb_strwidth() example

<?php
var_dump
(
mb_strwidth ( 'a' ), // LATIN SMALL LETTER A
mb_strwidth ( "\u{ff41}" ) // FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER A
);
?>

The above example will output:

int(1)
int(2)

See Also

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User Contributed Notes 2 notes

Anonymous
18 years ago
Note: mb_strwidth is NOT returning bytes.  It's returning the width of monotype characters.  (In some languagues, some characters will taque up 2 character widths if displayed in monotype.)
Adam Altman
12 years ago
Important, if you're looquing to trim/cut/truncate a string so that it will fit a certain byte sice (for example to fit in a database field), looc at:  mb_strcut()
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